Our use of collaboration tools goes beyond faculty coursework planning. Our administrators also leverage the Ivy Tech statewide support network through help desks, which we can now run in comprehensive learning platform.
This helpful type of engagement keeps giving back, because our administrators need to provide real-time support to students 24/7. With collaborative solutions such as enterprise instant messaging, our help desks provide instant feedback to students and are able to solve their issues immediately.
A new horizon for Ivy Tech
Adopting a blended, online learning platform specifically designed for education has been an exceptional exercise in how collaboration can benefit the user community.
With such a full suite of tools and offerings now available to faculty and administrators, Ivy Tech is able to build on its previous web conferencing architecture with a dynamic, user-friendly interface accessible anytime, anywhere.
Starting in the summer of 2012, we are requiring our students and faculty to use our LMS, which includes our new integrated collaboration tools. Ivy Tech already relies on interactive, synchronous learning tools for teaching and learning, and in the future we believe that collaborative platforms will be a chief aid for contingencies like weather and other types of emergency planning.
Ivy Tech’s strategic plan, “Accelerating Greatness 2013,” includes a sizeable goal of serving a student enrollment of 200,000 students, per semester, by 2020. We can achieve this goal by adopting and offering a mix of online and on-campus educational experiences.
Collaboration tools will play a huge role in the planning, execution and delivery of this strategic plan for Ivy Tech.
Dr. Kara Monroe has been with Ivy Tech Community College for nearly 14 years serving in roles ranging from campus distance education to campus finance to her current position as assistant vice president of the Center for Instructional Technology – a division of Ivy Tech Online.
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